Yet as soon as I heard the airport jitney driver's cadenced "Welcome to New Orleans," a deep yearning welled up.
"Baduizm" went on to sell three million copies and win two Grammy awards, proving there was room in rhythm and blues for utopian yearning as well as street chronicles.
A film about someone going on a very long walk doesn't sound especially dramatic but Nick Hornby's screenplay (adapted from Strayed's book) brings out Cheryl's yearning as well as the epic quality of her mini-Odyssey.
When I came into his room a little later he said to me, with a stunned and yearning look, "Well, he made it sound like I don't have a lot of options".
The new album's opening number, "Time Spent in Los Angeles," has the yearning — as well as the three-part harmonies — that evoke the period directly.
Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times praised O'Connor's direction, suggesting it lent the film "a strong sense of yearning, as well as a spiritual quality more apparent in the look of the film than in its dialogue".
We beseech and are beseeched; we lament the stubborn and tragic flaw of, "When will we ever learn?" We hold hands and chant and pray and feel the warmth of hope and yearning as well as with sadness at the sense that it is all an unattainable dream.
The burdens of a public life, of living as a symbol of some vast and unquenched yearning, are well-known, but few among us understand with the terrible insight of the Shabazz family what it means to die that way.
By Jelani Cobb May 12 ,2013 The burdens of a public life, of living as a symbol of some vast and unquenched yearning, are well-known, but few among us understand with the terrible insight of the Shabazz family what it means to die that way.
I feel that yearning sometimes as well.
